FOUR AGES.
Spring, with her snow-white blossoms scattered o'er :: . ~, The green-robed orchards—violet-crowned . Spring j 0 Spring, when the throstle and the nightingale Amid the nistliug leaflets woo and sing 1 Summer, with crimson roses round her brow, With silver brook lets babbling to the breeze: Summer, when bending rushes music make, And wordless songs sound mid the forest trees! Autumn, with golden shocks of ripe-red corn With roseate fruits, with laden hazelboughs ; Autumn, when mellowed hearts renew again With holier tenderness, their Spring-tide vows] Winter, with frost and ice! Ah, too proud man, ; ; How quickly doth his Spring of life grow old! The bud grows on apace to blossom-time, The fruit grows ripe and falls—the tale is told!
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1596, 24 July 1874, Page 297
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118FOUR AGES. Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1596, 24 July 1874, Page 297
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